24 Heures and 20 Minutes. According to 24Heures the canton of Vaud has banned fires and barbeques due to high fire risk. In a similar article 20 Minutes reported that fires and barbeques in the cantons of Valais, Basel city, Basel country and Solothurn have also been banned. The bans forbid fires and barbequing in […]
Archives for 2015
Is Lausanne One of The World’s Top Cities?
While perusing the racks at the local magazine shop, your loyal Happy Valley Correspondent was delighted to come across the latest edition of Monocle magazine. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Monocle, it’s a very glossy periodical, with many nice pictures. It describes itself as “a briefing on global affairs, business, culture and […]
Poke your head out of a Swiss train and it could get whacked by a broom
In the United States you might get sued for this. But this is Switzerland and Swiss Rail has decided that getting your head hit by a broom from time to time is far better than getting it knocked off by something harder like a tunnel entrance or a piece of construction equipment. How refreshingly practical. […]
Swiss post parcels could soon arrive by drone
Swiss Post, Swiss WorldCargo (the air freight division of Swiss International Air Lines) and Matternet (a logistics drone manufacturer based in California) are jointly testing the commercial use of logistics drones. The three companies are investigating specific uses of drone technology and examining their cost-effectiveness. Testing is being done in July 2015. Possible areas of […]
Solar impulse lands in Hawaii
HAWAII, July 3rd, 2015. Solar impulse, the 100% solar powered Swiss plane and pilot, landed in Hawaii completing the longest and most difficult leg of the Round the World Solar Flight. Pilot André Borschberg landed safely in Hawaii after flying 117 hours and 52 minutes over the Pacific Ocean from Japan powered only by the […]
“Your biggest opponent is yourself” explains Geneva based fighter
Packed inside the Theatre du Léman in Geneva, you can feel the electric charge in the air. The evening is slowly percolating towards its apogee, as the sold-out crowd anxiously awaits the main event. At last, a wave of cheers erupts from the back and travels across the room as both fighters emerge and start […]
Swiss wine review: Marsanne, Robert Gilliard, 2012 AOC Valais
Marsanne, also know as Ermitage, Hermitage, Grosse Roussette, Marzanne, white Hermitage and Zrmitazh. In Switzerland it mainly grows in the Valais region. It is thought to have originally come from the northern part of the Rhone valley in France, although it also grows in Spain and Australia where it was first planted in the 1860s. […]
Montreux Jazz Festival opens
The 49th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival opens today. The scorching line up this year is in tune with the summer heat wave. The opening line up includes Emeli Sandé, John Legend, Soak, The Staves, Ibeyi, Oscar and the Wolf, Lilly Wood & the Prick. Click here for the full programme (in English) For […]
Payments from “rich” cantons to “poor” cantons reduced
Tribune de Genève. Bern reached a decision that means “rich” cantons will pay CHF 67 million less to “poor” cantons from 2016 to 2019 reported Tribune de Genève. The so called “rich” cantons include Zug, Schwyz, Geneva, Vaud and a number of others. Recipients include the cantons of Fribourg, Valais, Neuchâtel, Jura and Bern. The […]
How to sleep in a heat wave
24Heures. The newspaper 24Heures offers advice on how to get to sleep with current high temperatures. Fortunately nighttime is cooler than daytime, however temperatures will still be well above 20 degrees Celsius at nights. Here is what you can do to make yourself more comfortable: 1. Dampen your curtains – before sleeping dampen your curtains […]
